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Visual analysis of research paper collections using normalized relative compression

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Title: Visual analysis of research paper collections using normalized relative compression
Authors: Vázquez Alcocer, Pere Pau
Contributors: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Ciències de la Computació, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. ViRVIG - Grup de Recerca en Visualització, Realitat Virtual i Interacció Gràfica
Publisher Information: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
Publication Year: 2019
Collection: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, BarcelonaTech: UPCommons - Global access to UPC knowledge
Subject Terms: Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Aplicacions de la informàtica, Information visualization -- Data processing, Visualization, Compression, Similarity, Text, Visualització de la informació -- Informàtica
Description: The analysis of research paper collections is an interesting topic that can give insights on whether a research area is stalled in the same problems, or there is a great amount of novelty every year. Previous research has addressed similar tasks by the analysis of keywords or reference lists, with different degrees of human intervention. In this paper, we demonstrate how, with the use of Normalized Relative Compression, together with a set of automated data-processing tasks, we can successfully visually compare research articles and document collections. We also achieve very similar results with Normalized Conditional Compression that can be applied with a regular compressor. With our approach, we can group papers of different disciplines, analyze how a conference evolves throughout the different editions, or how the profile of a researcher changes through the time. We provide a set of tests that validate our technique, and show that it behaves better for these tasks than other techniques previously proposed. ; Peer Reviewed ; Postprint (published version)
Document Type: article in journal/newspaper
File Description: 22 p.; application/pdf
Language: English
Relation: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/6/612; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2013-2016/TIN2017-88515-C2-1-R/ES/VISUALIZACION, MODELADO, SIMULACION E INTERACCION CON MODELOS 3D. APLICACIONES EN CIENCIAS DE LA VIDA Y ENTORNOS RURALES Y URBANOS/; https://hdl.handle.net/2117/143204
DOI: 10.3390/e21060612
Availability: https://hdl.handle.net/2117/143204
https://doi.org/10.3390/e21060612
Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ ; Open Access ; Attribution 3.0 Spain
Accession Number: edsbas.7AC2491C
Database: BASE
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DOI:10.3390/e21060612